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Post by Gingerbread Man on Nov 5, 2013 14:54:25 GMT
townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2013/11/04/maybe-pain-will-teach-you-millenials-not-to-vote-for-your-own-serfdom-n1733722/page/full"You Millenials voted for Obama by a margin of 28 percent, which will make it a lot easier for me to accept the benefits you will be paying for. We warned you that liberalism was a scam designed to take the fruits of your labor and transfer it to us, the older, established generation. Oh, and also to the couch-dwelling, Democrat-voting losers who live off of food stamps and order junk from QVC with their Obamaphones. You didn’t listen to us. Maybe you’ll listen to pain. " See the rest in the article. Nothing new, but it needs to be repeated, stop voting to become serfs without control over your own future.
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Post by rickoshea on Nov 6, 2013 3:24:55 GMT
I've been going back to school for about a year now, and I was pleasantly surprised by the "attitude" of the kids (mostly 18 - 25) that I'm in class with. Granted, it's a technical college with probably less than 500 students and only two or three Bachelor's programs, but it still warms my heart to see these youngsters with their heads screwed on straight.
These kids will still have a long-row-to-hoe, but I can't help but think that they will have a leg-up on the other Millennials that seem to be willfully ignorant.
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Post by redeyes on Nov 7, 2013 6:53:54 GMT
It is true. It is also true that many in the older generation have done their very best and are still doing their best to feed the younger generation a bunch of crap. Just watch nearly any TV show or movie aimed at youth and young adults, listen to popular music, watch the news, go to school, read nearly any magazine, newspaper or periodical, hell even search engines and popular media sites are biased. Crap from every direction, since you were born, from people you are supposed to be able to trust. Is it any wonder?
The pain has been here for millenials. More is coming. Both parties suck. Older people are living longer, using more bennies, and have more time for politics. Not that it is all older peoples fault. Anybody who casts a vote shares some of the responsibility, but the ones who indoctrinated that generation share blame equally if not more. So I guess the problem is, they did listen.
ETA The above post is directed entirely at the article and not at any previous poster.
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Post by RTF Squared on Nov 7, 2013 8:29:36 GMT
IMO, this article is a mildly funny way of disparaging one party to make the other look better. I'm at the point to where the terms "liberal" and "conservative" should be retired into the world of forgotten language, because neither party meets the true definition of either. Articles like this serve to further divide people into the factions they dwell in. There isn't much the "conservatives" have honestly professed that would make the state of things any different.
I really don't know what can be done to inspire the work ethic into younger people. We're more or less a fatherless generation spawned by 80's grade intoxication that plans on getting rich by drinking expensive liquor at the strip club. Hard work isn't really in the genetics. The few I do know (and I mean FEW) that have their head screwed on right have things amazingly well locked down, but they are such a marginal percentage obstructed by overreaching government and a peer group of swagged out morons.
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Post by Browning35 on Nov 7, 2013 14:18:25 GMT
IMO, this article is a mildly funny way of disparaging one party to make the other look better. I'm at the point to where the terms "liberal" and "conservative" should be retired into the world of forgotten language, because neither party meets the true definition of either. Articles like this serve to further divide people into the factions they dwell in. There isn't much the "conservatives" have honestly professed that would make the state of things any different. It seems like it honestly depends on the individual. There are many different little sub-sets of those two sides. Generally it seems like whenever someone uses those terms they're talking about the ends of both. The progressives and the tea party. Discussing those two I would say there's a definite difference. With the RINO republicans and the tax-n-spend democrats less so, they're basically the same. So I guess it depends on who you're talking about. In terms of real conservative economic policies I believe it would have some real beneficial effects, but it's not going to go anywhere because there's no real support for it. It comes back full circle in that there's no real support for it because people think that they know what ' conservative' policies are based on the actions of RINO's and Neo-Cons (who aren't really conservative). |
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